- Since the library ABI has not changed in Debian (ever), keep the
package names the same and provide backwards-compatible symlinks to
avoid an unnecessary library transition; and update the symbols/shlibs
to make it clear the old versions of the library don't satisfy these
dependencies any longer.
From the Debian changelog of the bump to 2.3:
- Since the library ABI has not changed in Debian (ever), keep the compatible symlinks to
package names the same and provide backwards-
avoid an unnecessary library transition; and update the symbols/shlibs
to make it clear the old versions of the library don't satisfy these
dependencies any longer.